# Replicate Prompt Images — prompt skill for prompts by model

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Write better image prompts and edits: photographic language, lighting, text rendering, consistent characters.

- **Type:** [Prompt](https://skills.varg.ai/prompts.md) · [Prompts by model](https://skills.varg.ai/browse/skills/prompting.md)
- **Slug:** `replicate-prompt-images`
- **Status:** live
- **Publisher:** Replicate (vendor, verified)
- **License:** Apache-2.0
- **Source:** https://github.com/replicate/skills/tree/main/skills/prompt-images
- **Works in:** Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI
- **Requires:** Replicate account and API token
- **Cost:** Billed by Replicate per prediction
- **Adoption:** 2,700 installs, 142 GitHub stars (skills.sh, 2026-10-26)

## What it does

Prompting techniques for image generation and editing models on Replicate. It starts by choosing a model through the API rather than from memory, then covers natural-language prompts, camera and lens language, lighting setups, composition, text rendering, style transfer, character consistency and edits such as object removal, background changes, perspective shifts and inpainting.

## Use when

- Writing prompts for an image model
- Editing an image with a model
- Building an image-generation feature

## Install

- Claude Code: `npx skills add replicate/skills --skill prompt-images -a claude-code`
- Codex: `npx skills add replicate/skills --skill prompt-images -a codex`
- Cursor: `npx skills add replicate/skills --skill prompt-images -a cursor`
- Gemini CLI: `npx skills add replicate/skills --skill prompt-images -a gemini-cli`

**Models it drives:** nano_banana_pro, flux-2, seedream-5, imagen-4, ideogram, recraft

## Example output

https://skills.varg.ai/previews/replicate-prompt-images.webp — Nano Banana Pro output from Replicate's 'How to prompt Nano Banana Pro' guide: a comic-style New York weather report with legible lettering, from its world-knowledge prompting section (credit: Replicate, https://replicate.com/blog/how-to-prompt-nano-banana-pro)

## More prompts by model skills

- [fal Prompting](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/fal-prompting.md): Prompt specific model families well: Kling, GPT Image 2 and Happy Horse guides, loaded only when needed.
- [Replicate Prompt Videos](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/replicate-prompt-videos.md): Prompt video models like a director: shots, camera motion, four audio layers, dialogue, time-coded beats.
- [Video Prompting Guide](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/inference-sh-video-prompting-guide.md): Write prompts that video models follow: shot types, camera moves and per-model tips from Veo to Sora.
- [FLUX 3 Prompt Doctor](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/flux-3-prompt-doctor.md): Diagnose a FLUX 3 video brief before spending: resolve missing, conflicting or schema-changing asks.
- [FLUX Image Best Practices](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/flux-image-best-practices.md): Prompt FLUX image models well: structure, JSON prompts, hex colors, typography and multi-reference edits.
- [AI Film Director (Visual Skills)](https://skills.varg.ai/skills/visual-skills-video-director.md): AI film director for video prompts: dramaturgy first (Murch, blocking, montage), then exact syntax per model.